Gentle readers may recall my rant from last week discussing why the Federal government is useless in the medium term for any positive action on climate, and why we should aggressively looking elsewhere to make forward progress on this elemental issue. Just in case there are any doubters in the room who still believe that anything good will come from the Federal government on climate in this Congressional cycle, I'd like to lay those doubts to rest once and for all.
Take a look at this ad:
Who is this guy? He's Governor Joe Manchin, the Democratic candidate for Senator from my former home state, West Virginia. The race is a toss-up right now. If he wins, he's supposedly the guy on our side in the 112th Congress.
We're done here.